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Southwest Takes Over Seven AirTran Routes, Adds Five New Routes to Schedule

The slow assimilation of AirTran into the Southwest network continues to crawl along this winter, according to the new schedule extension announced today.

Just one AirTran station will be converted completely to Southwest flying on the new sched: Key West, which is currently connected to Orlando and Tampa Bay with daily AirTran service. Southwest takes over the routes on Nov. 4th.

Southwest will also take over four routes out of the AirTran hub in Milwaukee and one out of the Orlando hub.

Five new routes for Southwest will connect scattered existing markets, while several new seasonal routes under the AirTran banner will carry snowbirds to Florida from points in the northeast.

New Southwest markets:

Two daily nonstop flights between Dallas Love Field and Harlingen

One daily nonstop flight between Denver and Louisville

Two daily nonstop flights between Houston Hobby and Indianapolis

One daily nonstop flight between Houston Hobby and Orange County

One daily nonstop flight between Kansas City and New Orleans

Southwest assumes flying from AirTran:

One daily nonstop flight between Key West and Orlando

One daily nonstop flight between Key West and Tampa Bay

Two daily nonstop flights between Boston Logan and Milwaukee

One daily nonstop flight between Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood and Milwaukee

Five daily nonstop flights between Minneapolis-St. Paul and Milwaukee

One daily nonstop flight between San Francisco and Milwaukee

One daily nonstop flight between Orlando and Minneapolis-St. Paul

AirTran’s seasonal new markets include:

One daily nonstop flight between Buffalo and Tampa Bay

One daily nonstop flight between Akron-Canton and Ft. Myers

One daily nonstop flight between Columbus and Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood

One daily nonstop flight between Columbus and Tampa Bay

One daily nonstop flight between Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood and Indianapolis

One daily nonstop flight between Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood and Philadelphia

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